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Continue reading →: Big Apple 100!
Larry McShane, in yesterday’s New York Daily News reminds us that May 3, 2021 was the 100th anniversary of the first time the term “Big Apple” was used to refer to New York City (by New York Morning Telegraph cub reporter and horse-racing writer, John J. Fitz Gerald). In his…
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Continue reading →: Happy 90th Anniversary to the Empire State Building
It took them only 13 months to erect the greatest building in the world: The Empire State Building, which opened on May 1, 1931, ninety years + 1 day ago, (h/t to my friend Mario Rizzo for reminding me of the anniversary). Back in 1983, they put a King Kong…
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Continue reading →: Happy Easter to the Easterners!
“Christos Anesti” to all my Greek (Eastern) Orthodox family and friends: Happy Easter. Enjoy this celebration of renewal and rebirth.
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1863
Song of the Day: Come on-a My House features the words and music of Ross Bagdasarian (yes, “David Seville” of “Chipmunks” fame) and William Saroyan. Based on a traditional Armenian folk song, it was performed in the off-Broadway production of “The Son” (1950) but became a huge #1 hit for…
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Continue reading →: Roark Rolled
This one came out of a chat with philosopher and friend Roderick Tracy Long! For those who have been “Rick Rolled”, consider yourself “Roark Rolled.” For like Rick Astley, Howard Roark has Red Hair and Never Gives Up [YouTube link]!
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Continue reading →: “Lucky to Be Alive, & We Ain’t Kitten!”
Why anybody would attempt to rid themselves of a pet by throwing it in the trash is beyond me. Hopper the Cat is “Lucky to Be Alive” thanks to two sanitation workers in Queens, NY! Yay! Check out the story in today’s New York Daily News.
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Continue reading →: Be Kind …
This being the Greek Orthodox Holy Week, I can think of fewer messages more important than not giving into the very things you dislike in others. It reminds me of some great dialogue from “Ben-Hur” (1959). His family destroyed, his childhood friend (Messala), who betrayed him, is now dead, and…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1862
Song of the Day: Tribute to Film Composers [YouTube link], arranged and conducted by John Williams, is a celebration of some of the greatest scores—and their composers—to have ever graced the silver screen. It includes wonderful cues from such composers as Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold,…
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Continue reading →: Inherit the Wind … Still Riveting
This scene from the 1960 film, “Inherit the Wind” (which is on the local NY PBS station tonight), is one of the most riveting cinematic statements of the power of the individual human mind in the debate between science and religion. Based on the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, it features two…
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Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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